Sentence examples for defeats up from inspiring English sources

He would watch matches, especially defeats, up to 10 times in order to make sense of what had happened.

Australia's defeats up to this point in the Ashes had come courtesy of top order batting collapses; here we conjured a middle order collapse instead.

Having backed a losing candidate in the 1995 presidential election, he knows defeat up close.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!

Now that he has written a book, he has to concede defeat!" Up until the last moment, guests wondered if Saatchi would walk in – but he preferred to let his book do the talking.

The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California, said her party's challengers had an opportunity to defeat up to 14 Republican incumbents, with their hopes pinned primarily on races in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arizona, Georgia and Kentucky.

Andersen chalked defeat up to it being one of those nights rather than a testament to Pittsburgh's talent.

The 2011 12 Harvard team defeated then-ranked Florida State (#22 AP Poll/#20 Coaches' Poll) on November 25, 2011 for the school's second win over a ranked team in the program's history, and the highest ranked opponent in the Coaches Poll that Harvard had defeated up to that point.

The administration's legal defeats piled up.

The White Sox' starter, James Baldwin, trying for his eighth victory with no defeats, wound up with a no-decision.

Don't be defeated: stand up and say 'we're proud to be British'".